"There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You"

About the Book

Bruce Kimmel has managed to eke out a career in one form of show business or another for over forty years.  A successful Grammy-nominated record producer, Kimmel began his show business journey as an actor, in a time when being a young up-and-coming thespian was fun, thrilling, and when anything seemed possible.  It was a different world for a young actor in the 1970s, and Kimmel’s journey is paved with laughs, tears, success, and an amazing cast of players.  At twenty-seven, he wrote, co-directed, and starred in a film that would become a major cult success, The First Nudie Musical.  He did TV pilots, guest shots, series, plays.   He met and worked with incredible people.  It was the kind of time we will never see again. 

And then things changed.  The nature of the business changed.  And the path to dealing with those changes—getting older, trying to survive in an ever increasingly negative and cutthroat world—becomes a story of reinvention and rebirth.   Through it all, Kimmel tells his tale with wit, candor, affection, and self-effacing honesty.

Enjoy being the fly on the wall as Kimmel hangs out with Elsa Lanchester, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; goes to Groucho’s house and plays the piano for him; works with Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey on The Partridge Family.  We observe his long friendship with Cindy Williams, watch as he works with screen legends Patricia Neal, Jean Simmons, Leslie Nielsen, Patrick Macnee, Bud Cort, and Geraldine Fitzgerald, and as he hangs out with Hugh Hefner at the Playboy mansion.,

Bruce Kimmel’s showbiz tales are loaded with laughs, wide-eyed wonder, and heart. 

About the Author

Bruce Kimmel has written nine other books—his acclaimed Kritzer trilogy (Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, and Kritzer Time), Writer’s Block, Rewind, How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories, and his popular Adriana Hofstetter mystery series, Murder At Hollywood High, Murder At The Grove, and Murder At The Hollywood Historical Society.  He has done many other things, the majority of which you can read about in this book.